Memory loss and other symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease make it difficult for seniors to maintain both dignity and autonomy. Alzheimer’s home care providers offer them compassionate support customized for each individual’s situation. This attention to detail ensures that seniors with Alzheimer’s disease experience as much choice and independence as they can while they continue to live their lives. When care providers respect preferences, this helps seniors to hold onto their sense of purpose and self-worth.
How can professional Alzheimer’s home care caregivers do that?
Encouraging Participation in Daily Tasks
There are some misconceptions about elder care, especially when seniors have health issues like Alzheimer’s disease. Lots of people believe that home care providers do everything for the seniors they’re helping. That isn’t necessarily the case, particularly when seniors are still able to take care of some tasks themselves. Sometimes what seniors need most is just a little support or some reminders to continue engaging in daily activities.
Flexible, Personalized Support
Aging adults with Alzheimer’s disease need to have exactly the support they need. Some Alzheimer’s patients have struggles remembering how to do certain activities, while others don’t have the same difficulty. It doesn’t make sense for both patients to have the same care plan. Also, as needs change, seniors need to be able to rely on their care plans to adjust along with those needs to keep up with the changes.
Respecting Routines and Preferences
Even if seniors are starting to experience changes in memory and other cognitive functions, they likely already have some preferences and routines that they enjoy. Alzheimer’s home care providers make sure to preserve those routines as much as possible because they can be so comforting. Simple preferences like meal choices and activities during the day do so much to help seniors with Alzheimer’s disease feel respected and supported.
Sensitive Assistance
Seniors with Alzheimer’s disease may start to have trouble with delicate tasks, like changing clothes and taking a shower. It’s embarrassing to need help with these types of tasks and seniors with Alzheimer’s disease can be even more sensitive to feeling upset about needing help with such tasks. Alzheimer’s home care providers understand this and offer assistance discreetly and empathetically.
Preserving Social Engagement
When symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease worsen, seniors may gradually start to isolate themselves more and more. It takes a lot of energy to maintain social relationships and seniors can find it embarrassing to make social missteps because of memory issues and cognitive changes. Alzheimer’s home care providers get to know the seniors they care for and engage them in meaningful conversation every day. The company professional caregivers offer helps seniors to avoid isolating themselves.
Because of the progressive nature of Alzheimer’s disease, seniors and family caregivers find themselves consistently facing changes. Alzheimer’s home care providers understand this and help seniors with Alzheimer’s disease to have the support they need to maintain both dignity and autonomy. Even seniors with advanced Alzheimer’s disease need to feel comfortable and safe at home, knowing that they have the care they need.
If you or an aging loved one are considering Alzheimer’s Home Care Services in Westfield NJ, please contact the caring staff at Helping Hands Homecare today. Call (908) 418-4299
Helping Hands Homecare provides Senior Home Care Services throughout Northern and Central New Jersey, including Clark, Westfield, Cranford, Scotch Plains, Rahway, Linden, Summit, Edison, Elizabeth, Mountainside, Short Hills, Millburn, New Providence, Berkeley Heights, Kenilworth, Chatham, Madison, Metuchen, and surrounding areas.
After graduating from Seton Hall University with a BS in finance Helping Hands Homecare’s Owner / President, Robert D’Arienzo, went to work on Wall St. for six years. However, after Robert’s grandmother became ill with stomach cancer Robert and his family needed to find assistance in the home for her. After many trials and tribulations Robert could see that there was a great need for quality home care services here in NJ and loved the idea of being able to assist other families who were going through what his family went through with his beloved grandmother.
Thus, Robert had found his passion. After almost a year of preparation Robert opened Helping Hands Homecare in 2003. Robert wanted Helping Hands Homecare to focus on providing the highest quality of caregivers, exceptional customer service, and providing a service that familys could depend on in their time of need. Since then Helping Hands has assisted hundreds of individuals with the simplest of needs to more complex cases while preserving those standards set out many years ago.
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